Blind Items Revealed – Old Hollywood

This actress was B list back in the day. Mostly movies. She was kind of like Pamela Anderson. She was famous for being in Playboy and doing some movies, but not much acting talent. The actress also dated a lot of men. She says the worst sex she ever had was with this screen legend. She didn't know at the time he was gay but was wondering why he didn't seem to know what to do and “laid there like a sack of potatoes.”

Secret my ass. When I was in 6th grade (that would be 1973-ish) and watching Pillow Talk on TV, my dad, who knows nothing about celebrities (for example, at the height of Thriller he had never heard of Michael Jackson) told me that Rock Hudson was famously gay. Of course he probably said "queer" – sorry to say.

The same "people" didn't know Rock Hudson was gay that didn't know Anderson Cooper was gay….

@Sara, I agree. I also grew up it the suburbs, and heard the rumors about 'Rock Hudson marrying Jim Nabors' in the early 1970s. Even in the 1950s, there were rumors about his sexuality, which is why he married his agent's secretary in a set-up and ultimately unhappy marriage.

"The Man who Made Rock Hudson" is an excellent book about early Hollywood by the way – it's about Henry Wilson, the guy who named Hudson and Tab Hunter and Rory Calhoun and lots of other 50s hunks. He was gay and slept with a lot of his protegés.

When he first met Roy Fitzgerald, the man who was to become Rock Hudson, Roy was sterotypically gay, and Wilson 'trained' him to act in a more traditionally butch manner. He also made Roy scream and scream on a day when he had a sore throat, which damaged his vocal cords and lowered his voice permanently.

I think Hudson is an underrated star because all the excitement about his sexuality and death from AIDS. There was also an excellent documentary, 'Rock Hudson's Home Movies', about what the documentarian said were clues about his sexuality in many of his movies. Certainly in 'Pillow Talk' there is a long sequence in which he pretends to be gay.

I think he's a strong actor, particularly in the Douglas Sirk movies he did in the 1950s, like 'Magnificent Obsession' and 'All that Heaven Allows' and 'Written on the Wind.' He also got an Oscar nomination for 'Giant.'

Mamie's the best. She's quite a lively presence on Facebook. Loves the animals and has many liberal causes she strongly supports. I'd love to read her memoir, "Playing the Field." She looks her most natural in the pix she posts of herself at the beach. Once a blond bombshell, always a blond bombshell.

I an glad that I grew up in a household that cherished old movies/ movie stars.

Anyway…

Even before the late eighties AIDS scare with Rock, MT grandmother used to say "that's Rock Hudson he's gay". She always introduce the old movie stars with the most prominent fact swirling around in her head. Lol

She'd always announce Tony Curtis as a "pretty man". So I agree that some people choose to ignore the obvious.

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